I'm Not Really a Waitress

How One Woman Took Over the Beauty Industry One Color at a Time

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Pub Date 12 Mar 2019 | Archive Date 12 Mar 2019

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Inspiring women to pursue their own colorful dreams, I'm Not Really a Waitress tells the story of how Suzi Weiss-Fischmann transformed a small dental supply company into a #1 beauty brand around the world

Today, OPI is known as a global beauty brand, famous for its trend-setting colors, unforgettable shade names, and celebrity collaborations with the biggest stars from film, television, music, and sports. But behind all the glamour is the little-known tale of OPI's unlikely origins-an intimate and inspiring story of a timid schoolgirl who arrives in this country with little money and no English and becomes the business leader and industry game-changer known worldwide as "Suzi, the First Lady of Nails."

In I'm Not Really a Waitress--titled after OPI's top-selling nail color--Suzi reveals the events that led her family to flee Communist Hungary and eventually come to New York City in pursuit of the American dream. She shares how those early experiences gave rise to OPI's revolutionary vision of freedom and empowerment, and how Suzi transformed an industry by celebrating the power of color-and of women themselves.

Inspiring women to pursue their own colorful dreams, I'm Not Really a Waitress tells the story of how Suzi Weiss-Fischmann transformed a small dental supply company into a #1 beauty brand around the...

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ISBN 9781580058193
PRICE $27.00 (USD)
PAGES 256

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Featured Reviews

Thank you to NetGalley and Perseus Books for an advance read of this title. I'm very interested in all things beauty, and I love OPI polish. As a matter of fact, I currently have on Samoan Sand. This book could be for a myriad of readers: beauty enthusiasts, entrepreneurs, and biography enthusiasts. It's almost broken into sections where this is evident. I would have loved to see more background on stories behind the polish, fun facts, etc. But, the author gives good advice, her story is very interesting and I LOVED the parts about OPI and the early days, how some shade names came to existence. I highly recommend this book.

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